The South Beach Diet is not low-carb. Nor is it low-fat. The South Beach Diet teaches you to rely on the right carbs and the right fats - the good ones - and enables you to live quite happily without the bad carbs and bad fats. As a result, you're going to get healthy and lose weight.

This group is for people on all phases of SBD to get support, advice and encouragement. Share recipes, thoughts, and goals.

In Phase 1 you are working to banish your cravings. During this phase, you'll eat normal-size helpings of meat, chicken, turkey, fish, and shellfish. You'll have plenty of vegetables, eggs, and cheese; and some nuts. You'll have salads with real olive oil in the dressing. You'll have three balanced meals a day, and it will be your job to eat so that your hunger is satisfied. You'll be urged to have snacks in the midmorning and mid afternoon, whether you want to or not. You'll have dessert after dinner. You'll drink water, of course, plus coffee or tea if you wish.

For the first 14 days you won't be having any bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, baked goods, or fruit - you'll begin adding those things back into your diet again in two weeks. But for right now, they're off-limits. No candy, cake, cookies, ice cream, or sugar for two weeks, either. No beer or alcohol of any kind.

In Phase 2 you start reintroducing carbs. You will continue losing weight after the 14-day period ends; even though you will have started adding some of those banished foods back into your life. You'll remain in Phase 2 and continue losing weight until you reach your goal. People lose, on average, a pound or two a week in Phase 2.

Phase 3 is maintenance.


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